Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09913341ea760485…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-03-27 10:42:06 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 0caaa5850f63c4663d35f03f2ac25a88 SHA-1: e309ca8c3957af3d5e395d87652a13a63cd09615 SHA-256: 09913341ea760485c7f1ff3ab2c731612980d149e4b118f1610e5900b479502b
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or redirecting users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URI heuristics point towards an attempt to drive traffic to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://jottigo.ru/award?keyword=basics+of+civil+engineering+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://reznitskygallery.com/29859526516v883v.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tifowufiwadoxi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134098290/4e682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tesegape.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135387632/3d777c2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://testvvd.xyz/724_telephone_area_code_canadap8kg4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milatepe.medianewsonline.com/88899705640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raisinshq.pro/23335933633v0nix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lupazul.mywebcommunity.org/production_of_ergot_alkaloids.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ru-dev.xyz/febalelugigusesabajebasikbn5g7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xetamoro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815737/7368476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wosufibataba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134866098/padasemulekas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forsage.pw/4322088148782rve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetisinodab.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135335938/5e486598781fc9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/45405f5d-f6f0-4bbe-af55-259b69de9797/pavoxoratowefusupuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1145c7bf-39c0-49a6-b71b-df1c9c50f570/10301911201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/60a8be24-7dd3-425b-8ef1-2b9c776adafd/lonezevetoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7c7749d3-eed7-41ed-8809-eadb11dfecb5/dejame_que_te_cuente_libro_completo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/00421f41-d105-4ff7-a945-86a37881ec58/technicolor_tg799vac_factory_reset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7d55ed50-8975-46b2-b4f5-1fc05339eba2/harry_potter_characters_patronus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/15d89279-0cc5-4f11-a656-962dccd99f48/32573951397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/453170ce-5a82-414e-ba69-03620c9426a3/how_much_do_divorce_lawyers_make_in_los_angeles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8012df7e-4244-4f5f-966b-31ea327ad23a/balupaxudelipakuxobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e68df891-9974-4a96-a6a3-1c24fc4cca6e/jofesolakovubomevonijom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/04b07bc9-4a05-4c2c-96d6-55b463b16179/what_is_the_modern_concept_of_home_science_education.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/76ed1624-ebbe-4cc0-964b-77b07176323a/xibomuriburi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c0bfa8c8-2140-499f-a64a-3c78c5afe1f0/polk_audio_surroundbar_3000_subwoofer_only.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1d0b0b30-0029-4d79-88fc-2a99254c60b4/vekiluwunanaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011fcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FCC 5432 bytes
SHA-256: cd5443685742e448c9f0421ba82432e4ed105cf98c264d4a490b5dd013e83045
font_01_sfnt_off00013261.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13261 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 5e42a339df3e68815a9ec8304907e71bed05ea92626e75d7de01f2ad9f532517